Course detail
A half-day workshop for supervisors of health-related PhDs using qualitative methods. This online course will cover the key issues about qualitative research in health within the context of PhD or postgraduate research. This online course will cover the key issues about qualitative research in health within the context of PhD or postgraduate research. These topics are approached from the perspective of supervisors, enabling participants to better support their students in planning, conducting and writing up qualitative elements of their PhD work. Both epistemological and practical issues will be considered. The following topics will be covered:
- Key concepts in qualitative research and common misunderstandings
- Ethical issues and applications
- Planning and timings
- Student training and skills development
- Supervisory support for analysis and writing processes
- Common supervisor and student anxieties about qualitative research.
Who this course is for
New or established academic supervisors of postgraduate students doing qualitative or mixed methods research projects in any area of health. You may have some prior experience and knowledge qualitative methods, be looking to refresh or build on your knowledge in relation to PhD supervision, or be new to qualitative methods and wishing to incorporate qualitative work within a mixed methods PhD.
Facilitators
Prof Nicola Morant is Professor of Qualitative Mental Health Research in the UCL Division of Psychiatry and co-director of the UCL Qualitative Health Research Network. She leads and advises on qualitative workstreams within large mixed-methods funded projects in a number of areas of mental health. Her own research focuses on shared decision-making for psychiatric medication management. Nicola has been teaching qualitative research methods for many years and has supervised numerous qualitative MSc and PhD research projects.
Prof Helene Joffe is a Professor of Psychology at UCL (University College London) with research interests in how people conceptualise, respond to and recover from various risks, as well as the liveability of cities. She has devised the Grid Elaboration Method to elicit people’s conceptualisations of social phenomena and has written extensively on systematic thematic analysis, including inter-coder reliability. In addition to having produced mixed methods, cross-cultural, prize winning work, she has led a wide range of multi-disciplinary research projects, supervising over 30 PhDs and researchers.
Teaching and structure
This is a single workshop, lasting 3 hours delivered entirely online via Zoom. The session will run mainly in a large group format, with some use of online breakout rooms to enable participant interaction and tailored troubleshooting. A small amount of optional preparatory material and follow-up resources will be provided.
